#cornelius vanderbilt iii

[corallapis]

Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Vol. 1), 1918-38, entry for 2nd July 1923

— Monday 2nd July In the evening we dined at Brook House some ninety strong with General and Mrs Vanderbilt.¹ Later there was a large ball, very fashionable and grand yet ‘kind’. Mrs Vanderbilt passed first into dinner with Paul of Serbia, which was correct but seemed to irritate Lord Curzon .... At midnight the P of W and the Yorks arrived ... her² first ball. Everyone was interested to see what would happen and what etiquette would be precedented and established. She was charming, dignified and blushing a little. Everyone ‘bobbed’ to the ground, if anything even lower than to the princes. Now that is settled. She brought no lady-in-waiting as Princess Mary³ frequently does ... — 1. Brigadier General Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873-1942), of New York, was a soldier and yachtsman: in 1896 he married, greatly against his father’s wishes, Grace Graham Wilson (1870-1953). 2. The former Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon. 3. Princess (Victoria Alexandra Alice) Mary (1897-1965), only daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. She married Henry George Charles Lascelles (1882-1947), by courtesy Viscount Lascelles, who in 1929 became the 6th Earl of Harewood. She was created Princess Royal in 1932.

[denerdnr]

Vanderbilt Triple Palace

The Triple Palace, also known as the William Henry Vanderbilt House, was a controversial mansion in New York City. Completed in 1882, it has belonged to several members of the Vanderbilt family.

It consisted of two wings: a single-family unit to the south, where William Henry lived, and a two-family unit to the north, where two of his daughters lived. Upon its completion, the mansion was generally criticized, either for bad taste or lack thereof. The interior decor was a mad mix of various artistic styles and periods, so much so that when Cornelius Vanderbilt III inherited the house, his wife Grace said: "Why, it's the back hole of Calcutta! I can't live here."

So Cornelius commissioned Horace Trumbauer to do an extensive renovation on the house in 1916. The interior was completely demolished and remodeled, and the exterior stripped of most of its decorative elements.

The northern section of the Triple Palace was demolished in 1927, while the southern section was destroyed in 1947; both sections have been replaced by skyscrapers.

In this version for The Sims 4, I only built the south wing. Originally, the mansion was clad in brownstone, but since I didn't have all the decorative elements in that color, I decided to do it in gray limestone.

[fritextramole]

Gossip Girl Appreciation Week Day 7: Giving Me Free Choice Was A Mistake

In a bizarre turn of events, I decided to figure out where Nate (maybe) sits in the van der Bilt family tree, based on the real life Vanderbilts

the blue is the real Vanderbilt family, the red is fiction

For the sake of space, I didn't put everyone, and in the breakdown I'll only put the direct line (+ a couple relevant relatives)

Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) was the magnate who made the name

his eldest son

William Henry Vanderbilt I (1821-1885) attended Columbia, but didn't graduate

has 2 sons to mention

William Kissam Vanderbilt I (1849-1920) had a son named after him, but that's not important (yet)

it's his older brother

Cornelius Vanderbilt II (1843-1899) who has the line were following

his son

Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt (1877-1915) who died in the sinking if the RMS Lusitania, but not before the birth of his eldest

William Henry Vanderbilt III (1901-1981) was married 3 times, and with his second wife had

William Henry Vanderbilt IV (1945-) a fairly private man, who I'm adapting into the William we know as Nate's grandfather

we'll give him a son and a daughter

The daughter is Anne, which brings us to Nate

The son doesn't have a canon name, but does have a canon son of his own

William Kissam Vanderbilt III, named after his great-great-great and great-great-great-great uncles, William Kissam Vanderbilt I and II, and nicknamed Tripp

a fun fact to close us out: Alfred's sister Gertrude married a Whitney, making her related (at least by marriage) to Eric's boyfriend Jonathan, who's stated to be a Whitney in 3x09. Unfortunately we don't know enough about Jonathan's immediate family to know how related he and Nate are (at the closest, 4th cousins; at the farthest, they share some distant relatives but aren't related themselves (à la Dan and Serena))

[steffenkral]

  Did you know? The William Starr Miller House is a mansion at 1048 Fifth Avenue. Miller hired the renowned New York-based, Beaux-Arts architectural firm Carrere and Hastings to design a six-story Louis XIII style townhouse for himself and his family. Facing 86th Street, the house sat on a rusticated base, the central three bays projecting from the bulk of the structure. A high slate mansard roof with tall stone-framed dormers sat behind a limestone balustrade. William Starr Miller died in the mansion on September 14, 1935, followed by his wife nine years later.  The house was opened in November 1944 for buyers to preview the art and furnishings as preparations were made to auction off the Miller estate.  A month earlier the mansion had been sold to one of the most socially-prominent names in New York, Grace Vanderbilt, widow of Cornelius Vanderbilt III. She was accustomed to the much larger home she had at 640 Fifth Ave and referred to the Miller mansion as “the gardener’s cottage.”  Cottage or not, Mrs. Vanderbilt made the house the center of lavish entertainments, charity events and glittering balls. In the 1990s osmetics heir Ronald Lauder conceived of a museum to house his collection of German and Austrian modern art.  He partnered with his friend, art dealer Serge Sabarsky whose collection was comparable.  The two quietly purchased the Miller mansion in 1994 and initiated a four-year renovation and restoration of the structure. Architect Annabelle Selldorf was given the task of sensitively bringing the mansion back to life and creating an art museum. Today the Neue Galerie is home to paintings by such artists Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, Paul Klee. The exquisite home remains remarkably intact, an elegant survivor of Upper Fifth Avenue's golden age. #funfactfriday (at Neue Galerie New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjbSK-UPlti/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.5

Beer Birthdays

Jack Daniel; distiller (1846)

Beevo Moore (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Keaton; actor, comedian (1951)

George Lazenby; actor (1939)

Freddie Mercury; rock singer (1946)

Bob Newhart; comedian, actor (1929)

Raquel Welch; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

J.C. Bach; composer (1735)

John Cage; composer (1912)

William Devane; actor (1939)

Dennis Dugan; actor (1946)

Werner Erhard; cult leader (1935)

Robert Fergusson; Scottish poet (1750)

Cathy Guisewite; cartoonist (1950)

Werner Herzog; German actor (1942)

Jesse James; outlaw (1847)

Arthur Koestler; writer (1905)

Nap Lajoie; Philadelphia Phillies/Cleveland Naps 2B (1874)

Carol Lawrence; actor, singer (1932)

Bill Mazeroski; Pittsburgh Pirates 2B (1936)

Rose McGowan; actor (1973)

Patti McGuire; Playboy playmate, model, television producer (1951)

Giacomo Meyerbeer; German composer (1791)

Buddy Miles; jazz musician (1947)

Arthur Charles Nielsen; market researcher (1897)

Cardinal Richelieu; French minister, clergyman (1585)

Al Stewart; pop singer (1945)

John Stewart; folk singer (1939)

Frank Thomas; animator (1912)

Jack Valenti; film industry thug (1921)

Cornelius Vanderbilt III; engineer, inventor (1873)

Loudon Wainwright III; singer, songwriter (1946)

Daryl F. Zanuck; film director (1902)

Dweezil Zappa; rock guitarist (!969)

[luxuryboats]

A Tradition of Quality and Innovation

The Hacker Boat Company has been building some of the finest vessels on the water for over 100 years. From their early days of constructing yacht tenders and rowing shells, to their modern line of luxury hacker craft, hacker boats are known for their quality construction, beautiful lines, and attention to detail. Today, we're going to take a look at the history of the Hacker Boat Company and some of their most iconic vessels.

Hacker Boat Company – A History

The Hacker Boat Company was founded in 1908 by George Stanton Hacker in New York City.

George Hackers father had been a successful boat builder in England, and Hacker set out to continue the family tradition in America. The early days of the company were spent building rowing shells and yacht tenders for some of the most prominent families on the East Coast. In fact, it was one of Hacker's clients, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III, who gave Hacker his first big break. She commissioned him to build a 27-foot motorboat named "Dorothy." Dorothy was such a success that she spawned an entire line of similar vessels, which came to be known as "Dorothys."      

During World War II, the Hacker Boat Company turned its attention to constructing Victory Ships for the United States Navy. After the war, they returned to building pleasure craft, and they quickly gained a reputation for building some of the finest wooden boats in the world. In fact, many of their early vessels are still sailing today.      

In recent years, the Hacker Boat Company has continued to innovate with their line of luxury hacker craft. These modern marvels are at once stylish and practical, and they have helped solidify Hacker's reputation as one of the premier boat builders in America.

Whether you're in the market for a classic wooden boat or a state-of-the-art hacker craft, there's no denying that the Hacker Boat Company is one of the best in the business. With over 100 years of experience crafting quality vessels, Hacker Boats are sure to provide you with many years of enjoyment on the water.

[lazyjacks]

"Perhaps the most notable of the late fin keelers were the so-called Newport one-design Thirties. They came out in 1896 and were forty-two feet O.A., twenty-nine feet six inches W.L., eight feet four inches beam, and seven feet one inch draft. They cost $2,850 complete, including one suit of sails and this was considered expensive then, but it is doubtful if any builder could duplicate one of them today for $25,000. They were beautifully built, double planked with mahogany over cedar, and each frame was steamed over a separate mold so that many consider them the first really one-design class with perhaps little or no variation in their speeds, weights, or dimensions. ... It was in the Newport Thirties that some of our best sailors, both amateur and professional, got their training, and some of both afterward graduated into the New York Yacht Club Seventy-foot Class." - L. Francis Herreshoff, The Wizard of Bristol

Veda John S. Johnston, 5 July 1897 Detroit Publishing Company photograph collection Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-D4-62597

[the1920sinpictures]

1929 Cornelius Vanderbilt III with his nieces Nandine and Sylvia Szechnyi, the children of Count and Countess Szechnyi (Cornelius’ sister Gladys and her husband). At, where else in the summer months, Newport, Rhode Island. From The Forgotten Splendour, FB.

[met-american-paintings]

William Henry II and Cornelius Vanderbilt III, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, 1882, American Paintings and Sculpture

Purchase, Friends of the American Wing Fund, Dorothy Schwartz Gift, and Morris K. Jesup Fund, 2010 Size: 16 1/4 x 26 1/8 in. (41.3 x 66.4 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/20547

[spilledreality]

American Wing III

1882, Herter Brothers, Library Table for Vanderbilt family, from the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing.

From the collection listing:

Herter Brothers, the New York firm of the German-born brothers Gustave and Christian Herter, was arguably the leading cabinetmaking and decorating firm in the United States during the late nineteenth century. Formed at a time when wealthy American financiers and industrialists were redefining luxurious standards of living, Herter Brothers created cosmopolitan environments encompassing every aspect of interior design, including furniture and woodwork, wall and ceiling decoration, floor treatments and draperies, for some of the most visible and affluent clients of the era. Between 1879 and 1882, Herter Brothers designed and decorated William Henry Vanderbilt's new Fifth Avenue mansion. This monumental table was the centerpiece of his library, and complemented the paneling of the room in its use of rosewood with lavish mother-of-pearl and brass inlay. Although called a library table, it was never intended for study per se; rather, it was a piece of sculpture and a monument to Vanderbilt himself. The table alludes to Vanderbilt's power and prestige: he was the son and heir of railroad baron "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794–1877) and, at the time, was considered the richest man in America. The table's overall shape, lion-paw feet, and stylized palmettes recall the marble furniture of the Roman empire; the wreaths enclosing a star in each corner of the table top echo Napoleonic heraldry; the globes on each end imply that Vanderbilt had the world within his grasp; and the table top presents a celestial field with the stars over the northern hemisphere on the day Vanderbilt was born, May 8, 1821.

Images courtesy of the Met.

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Les années qui passent sur nos visages, elles passent. Ce qui importe, c'est la jeunesse de l'âme.**

Pamela and Patricia Hicks, daughters of the Empire.  Pictured above in 1938 with their parents, Lord Louis Mountbatten and Lady Edwina Mountbatten, the last viceroy of India in 1947.

Patricia was was godmother to Prince Charles and cousin of Prince Philip. She lost her father and son to an IRA bombing in 1979. When the future he Countess Mountbatten of Burma married Lord Brabourne in 1947, Princess Elizabeth, Princess Margaret, Lady Pamela and Princess Alexandra of Kent acted as her bridesmaids. Lady Patricia and Lord Brabourne went on to have eight children together before his death in 2005. She died in 2017 at the ripe age of 93 years old.

Pamela Hicks was the younger daughter of Earl Mountbatten of Burma, a great-grandson of Queen Victoria, and the Hon. Edwina Ashley, she was born, quite suddenly, in Barcelona, with King Alfonso XIII of Spain (a cousin by marriage of her father) becoming her godfather, and was the first cousin of the Duke of Edinburgh and a niece of Queen Louise of Sweden. She grew up in England, stayed with Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt III at her residence in New York City during WWII, and accompanied her parents to India when they were appointed the last Viceroy and Vicereine of India.

After returning to Britain, Lady Pamela was appointed as a Lady-in-waiting to her cousin-in-law, Elizabeth II.  She was the Corps Commandant of the Girls’ Nautical Training Corps from 1952 to 1959.

Lady Pamela married noted interior decorator and designer David Nightingale Hicks at Romsey Abbey, near the family seat of Broadlands. The couple had three children, Edwina, Ashley, and India and remained happily married, residing at Britwell House and then The Grove, until his death in 1998. In 2012 Pamela published her memoirs, ‘Daughter of Empire: Life as a Mountbatten’ chronicling her childhood, her time in India, and her time as lady-in-waiting to the Queen.

**The years that pass on our faces, they pass. What matters is the youth of the soul.

[ceeceerae]

Cornelius Vanderbilt III and his wife Grace, walking on Fifth Avenue, NYC

Undated photo

[met-drawings-prints]

Design for a Stage Set (recto); Fragmentary Sketch of a Plan (verso) by Giovanni Battista Natali III, Drawings and Prints

Medium: Pen and brown ink, brush with brown and gray wash (recto); pen and brown ink (verso)

Gift of Cornelius Vanderbilt, 1880 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/342379

[brookstonalmanac]

Birthdays 9.5

Beer Birthdays

Jack Daniel; distiller (1846)

Beevo Moore (1983)

Five Favorite Birthdays

Michael Keaton; actor, comedian (1951)

George Lazenby; actor (1939)

Freddie Mercury; rock singer (1946)

Bob Newhart; comedian, actor (1929)

Raquel Welch; actor (1940)

Famous Birthdays

J.C. Bach; composer (1735)

John Cage; composer (1912)

William Devane; actor (1939)

Dennis Dugan; actor (1946)

Werner Erhard; cult leader (1935)

Robert Fergusson; Scottish poet (1750)

Cathy Guisewite; cartoonist (1950)

Werner Herzog; German actor (1942)

Jesse James; outlaw (1847)

Arthur Koestler; writer (1905)

Nap Lajoie; Philadelphia Phillies/Cleveland Naps 2B (1874)

Carol Lawrence; actor, singer (1932)

Bill Mazeroski; Pittsburgh Pirates 2B (1936)

Rose McGowan; actor (1973)

Patti McGuire; Playboy playmate, model, television producer (1951)

Giacomo Meyerbeer; German composer (1791)

Buddy Miles; jazz musician (1947)

Arthur Charles Nielsen; market researcher (1897)

Cardinal Richelieu; French minister, clergyman (1585)

Al Stewart; pop singer (1945)

John Stewart; folk singer (1939)

Frank Thomas; animator (1912)

Jack Valenti; film industry thug (1921)

Cornelius Vanderbilt III; engineer, inventor (1873)

Loudon Wainwright III; singer, songwriter (1946)

Daryl F. Zanuck; film director (1902)

Dweezil Zappa; rock guitarist (!969)

[katiecallahanandco]

When all of your siblings are known for marrying well, you have to set your sights high. And Grace Wilson did. She and Niely Vanderbilt (Cornelius III) married even though it would cause all kinds of trouble. Yet even still, they were the last of the Gilded Age high society great entertainers. You can read about that and see some of her jewelry collection in today’s #GreatJewelryCollectors post (a link to it is in the bio). #TheMarryingWilsons (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/BwcJeHShxFm/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=5w15ugeq7mov

[danismm]

The summer "cottage" of Gen Cornelius (III) and Mrs. Grace Wilson Vanderbilt